Just to verify, there is no legal way to build a new CA legal center-fire rifle that is less than 30 inches in its shortest configuration...right?

tomd1584

05-19-2011, 11:42 PM

Unless you use one of those short pistol receiver extensions, it's damn near impossible. You'll be fine.

dieselpower

05-20-2011, 12:23 AM

A semiautomatic, centerfire rifle that has an overall length of less than 30 inches.

make it a bolt action with no gas system, or a single shot with a zero round magazine and you can go as low as 26"

Stone

05-20-2011, 6:53 AM

make it a bolt action with no gas system, or a single shot with a zero round magazine and you can go as low as 26"

Thanks for the ideas. I actually kind of like the sound of that zero round magazine option. I could pull that off by using a bullet button to permanently affix a fully blocked up magazine making it a single shot. Then when I move out of state, eg for my yearly hunting trip, the rifle could be converted back to semi-auto (with the proper tool).

tomd1584

05-20-2011, 11:41 AM

make it a bolt action with no gas system, or a single shot with a zero round magazine and you can go as low as 26"

but even with a CAR stock and a 16" barrel, you'd only get to like 28-29" maaaybbbeee....

cmace22

05-20-2011, 12:04 PM

but even with a CAR stock and a 16" barrel, you'd only get to like 28-29" maaaybbbeee....

Maybe its an AK.

tomd1584

05-20-2011, 12:10 PM

Maybe its an AK.

ahhhh....Somehow i thought i read AR-rifle. thats what i get posting from my blackberry when i'm half- asleep.

CHS

05-20-2011, 12:32 PM

Just to verify, there is no legal way to build a new CA legal center-fire rifle that is less than 30 inches in its shortest configuration...right?